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Chris Murphy: “And frankly, the report that was issued by the IAEA describes a culture of permissiveness that allowed for the Iranians…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
And frankly, the report that was issued by the IAEA describes a culture of permissiveness that allowed for the Iranians up to 2003 and in some respects after 2003 to conduct a military-scale nuclear weapons research program.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy discusses the IAEA report on Iran's nuclear weapons research culture.

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